LEADER 03435nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910967189503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611957001 010 $a9781281957009 010 $a1281957003 010 $a9780226308036 010 $a0226308030 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226308036 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578826 035 $a(EBL)432174 035 $a(OCoLC)646784331 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000213589 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11198940 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000213589 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10172040 035 $a(PQKB)11599327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432174 035 $a(DE-B1597)524811 035 $a(OCoLC)1058413316 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226308036 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432174 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266039 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195700 035 $a(Perlego)1853398 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578826 100 $a20060419d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOf farming & classics $ea memoir /$fDavid Grene 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (182 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780226308012 311 08$a0226308014 320 $a"Selected bibliography, works by David Grene": p. 167-169. 327 $aThe beginning -- Origins -- Family -- Dublin (with animals) -- The theater -- Tipperary -- Schools -- Trinity College -- Vienna -- Return to Dublin : Ria Mooney -- America -- University of Chicago -- Farming -- Riding to hounds. 330 $aA fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing, with Richmond Lattimore, of The Complete Greek Tragedies. In this charming memoir, which he wrote during the years leading up to his death in 2002 at the age of eighty-nine, Grene weaves together these interests to tell a quirky and absorbing story of the sometimes turbulent and always interesting life he split between the University of Chicago-where he helped found the Committee on Social Thought-and the farm he kept back in Ireland. Charting the path that took him from Europe to Chicago in 1937, and encompassing his sixty-five-year career at the university, Grene's book draws readers into the heady and invigorating climate of his time there. And it is elegantly balanced with reflections stemming from his work on the farm where he hunted, plowed and regularly traveled on horseback to bring his cows home for milking. Grene's form and humor are quite his own, and his brilliant storytelling will enthrall anyone interested in the classics, rural Ireland, or twentieth-century intellectual history, especially as it pertains to the University of Chicago. 517 3 $aOf farming and classics 606 $aClassicists$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aClassicists 676 $a880.9 676 $aB 700 $aGrene$b David$0190402 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967189503321 996 $aOf farming & classics$91021851 997 $aUNINA